Old Stone House & Washington Park presents world premiere of Earthquakes and Islands
On Sunday, May 22, at 4 p.m., Brooklyn’s historic Old Stone House at 336 3rd Street in Park Slope will present the Brooklyn Art Song Society’s world premiere of Andrew Staniland’s “Earthquakes and Islands,” a co-commission with the Casement Fund Song Series.
This work by one of Canada’s most esteemed young composers features settings of the strange, beautiful and brutally honest poetry of Robin Richardson. Staniland’s music has been called “alternately beautiful and terrifying” by The New Yorker, and Richardson has been praised as “one of the best young poets of her generation.”
Acclaimed Canadian singers Martha Guth and Tyler Duncan will be joined by pianists Michael Brofman and Erika Switzer.